* Future plan: That I leave upon the ambassadors. Whatever problems they put forward, I am ready to work on it.

* Future plan: That I leave upon the ambassadors. Whatever problems they put forward, I am ready to work on it.

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== [[User:red|Sandro Mathys]] (red_alert) ==

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Nominated by [[User:Cwickert|Christoph Wickert]]

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* '''Candidate statement'''

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** Currently Ambassador in Switzerland, working together with lots of EMEA Ambassadors (particularly those from Germany due to the shared language) and looking forward to get involved in another event outside EMEA ASAP.

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* '''Contributor profile'''

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** Linux user since 1999 (Red Hat Linux)

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** Fedora user since 2003

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** Fedora ambassador since 2007

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** Actively participated in [[User:Red#Events|many events]] since then

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** For the marketing project, I wrote the [[FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2008/PressPublications|press release]] for LinuxTag 2008/FUDCon Berlin 2008/F9. To have this distributed, Joerg Simon and I worked closely together with Red Hat EMEA's marketing division.

Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election 2009: Nominations

Candidates may be any member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.

You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages carry additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to write.

As some of you may already know, I am an Ambassador from Canada, specifically from Quebec City. One thing that I would like to do as a FAmSCo member would be the creation of a well defined workflow to help Canadian Ambassadors represent Fedora by :

* Setting up a Canadian Event Box (already started)
* Helping Canadian Ambassadors in getting resources they need
* Help them with the sponsoring of events in Canada
* Represent Canada in FAmNA and FAmSCo meetings

The big goal I have for this term is to have Canada be an included part of FAmNA.

I know that my goals sound very Canada centric but I think that creating and documenting this process will benefit Ambassadors in regions less represented.

Contributor profile

I started working with Linux ten years ago when I was in high school. Since that moment, the interest in learning more never left. That led me to work in an Open Source related environment. Currently, I mostly do deployment, development and security work with RHEL.

My involvement in the community is with bugzilla and trying to help people on irc and multiple boards across the net. I recently started to use Rawhide daily on a separate box at home, helping with tests and use cases. I plan on doing some packaging effort, submitting some packages that I maintain for my personal use.

I am also very active in local events, mainly "Install Fest" and LUG meetings. I love to make presentations, sharing knowledge with other people in the room, having some great discussions about a subject, etc.

Future plans

* Promote Fedora in Quebec and Canada
* Be sure to have a strong Fedora image and presence across Canada
* Recruit and mentor new Canadian Ambassadors
* Try to facilitate new Ambassadors contributions
* Document every step to make them accessible to other Ambassadors

I'm an Ambassador coming from Italy, I'm and I was involved also in different project under Fedora's hat.
The main goal is to bring new ideas and new ways to operate and communicate around the world, in order to improve and simplify the way people are involved in event and within the fedoraproject.

Contributor profile

Ambassador since 2008, Fedora User since 2007, Linux user since 2002

I've Joined some EMEA and Italy events: FOSDEM, Linux TAG, Linux Day for e.g.

Actually running the Italian Fedora Community

Future plans

Keep FAmSCo up to date on Local groups activities/problems/improvements;

Improve communication within and outside the FAmSCo and the fedora ambassadors project

Help Ambassadors with events organization, supporting Ambassadors ideas and initiatives.

As a Fedora Ambassador, I have been able to help several users and new ambassadors on this learning and teaching journey. My main goal is to make users heard and understood, make them be part of everything and give them answers to their needs. We all know that ambassadors are the knowledge gate into fedora and a connecting part between users and developers.

Fedora is one of the best communities, solid and organized but fedora is a lot more. We need to encourage our ambassadors not only to spread fedora to users, we also need to spread fedora to governments, developers, schools and also to ourselves. We need to teach people how to use fedora, but also how to contribute.

I'm really unsure about getting into FAmSCo, I know I'm one of the newest ambassadors running for this position, but maybe we need a new approach to get some issues solved, new ideas, more feed back, something. Let's keep fedora be what it is for us and work to grow up.

Candidate statement -- My goal in running for FAMSCo is to continue to be the primary worldwide budget coordinator for the Fedora Project. In the past year, my primary goal with FAMSCo was to initiate and kickoff the Fedora Activity Day idea, which is an expansion of the Fedora Ambassador Day. I am very proud of the achievements in mentoring that FAMSCo achieved this past year. My small contribution to that was to teach a "How to be a Fedora Ambassador" class in #fedora-classroom a few times, and to produce a template for that class which anyone can use.

Contributor profile -- I've been doing Fedora stuff for quite a while now. See my user page for more information.

Candidate statement -- As Fedora Ambassador and a Fedora Mentor, I would like to link our ambassadors a bit more with other teams and groups around Fedora, for example with technical parts like packaging, QA, bugzapping or artistic parts like our Artwork team. As Fedora only lives by contributors, we should try to get new ambassadors at parts and regions where we actually really need ambassadors to make Fedora better. That includes countries with (right now) less or even no Fedora Ambassadors as well as new (wo)manpower in understaffed teams or groups around Fedora.

Contributor profile -- I'm using Linux since Red Hat Linux 6.2, thus Fedora from the very first beginning. I started contributing with Red Hat Linux 9; later in Fedora Core and Extras days, I got packager and with the Core and Extras merge, I got an ambassador. Today I'm maintaining about 60 packages on all active Fedora and EPEL branches (if technically possible). I'm supporting the websites team as well as the German translation team, too. Beside of that, I try to be a good mentor for new Fedora ambassadors and packagers and if there's still time, I use my provenpackager status to give a bit love to broken packages.

Future plans -- Try to help FAmSCo whenever and whereever needed to get work somehow done.

* Streamline delivery of content to scale down the learning curve in using F/OSS with the help of Fedora.
* Fedora marketing to regions that require attention and support.
* Work on providing more hands-on workshops for newbies starting to work with Fedora.

I won't list the things that I did during my last tenure. However, if you are really interested, please take a look at my my blog. Or you may also google it. I am not being rude but as I was a part of a team, and I can not claim those as my accomplishment. :)

I shall work towards mentoring new faces, and work with APAC countries (which I promised but could not do very well).

Currently Ambassador in Switzerland, working together with lots of EMEA Ambassadors (particularly those from Germany due to the shared language) and looking forward to get involved in another event outside EMEA ASAP.

For the marketing project, I wrote the press release for LinuxTag 2008/FUDCon Berlin 2008/F9. To have this distributed, Joerg Simon and I worked closely together with Red Hat EMEA's marketing division.